Cunningham is new business dean at SDSU

Michael R. Cunningham has been named dean of San Diego State University’s College of Business Administration.

Cunningham, who founded Cunningham Graphics International, has taught management courses at SDSU since 2005.

“There is tremendous excitement about Michael Cunningham’s appointment and I greatly look forward to working with him to advance our College of Business Administration,” SDSU Provost Nancy Marlin said in a prepared statement.

Cunningham earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from New York University and his bachelor’s from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

He will assume his new duties June 20.

The current dean, Gail Naughton, is leaving SDSU in order to focus on her work as CEO and chairman of the board of Histogen Inc., which she founded in 2007.